1x07: Ice

[wendelah1]

Our mini-rewatch begins! So, "Ice" has it all: sex, violence, black humor, bad science, plenty of opportunities for scenery chewing, and some of the tensest scenes between Mulder and Scully of the entire series.

My favorite retro-nineties fashion moment from season one is Dana Scully standing there wearing her gigantic puffy coat. She looks all of thirteen in that scene.



Writers: Glen Morgan and James Wong
Director: David Nutter
Originally aired: November 5, 1993

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully are assigned to investigate the mass murder-suicides of a team of scientists at a remote research facility in Icy Cape, Alaska.

Most Memorable Quote:
MULDER: Scully! For God's sake, it's me!
SCULLY: Mulder...you may not be who you are.

Links:
transcript
Entertainment Weekly's X-Cyclopedia: The Ultimate Episode Guide, season one. That magazine's TV critic was so obsessed with this show. Not like us.
Sara Stegall's review
Autumn Tysko's review

Fanfiction:
Everywhere In The Dark by tree.
Summary: A missing scene from Ice. What happened between saying goodnight and Mulder finding Murphy? This is one possibility.

Strange Things Done by Dryad
Summary: The Arctic in eight moments.

Maybe it's time for a reread of Universal Invariants by syntax6.
Summary: This is an AU story in which I play fast and loose with the first season. While I'm just as glad that Ethan got eliminated from the actual show (I don't think he would have added much on the screen) I thought it would be fun to play out the relationship here as Scully gets dragged deeper and deeper into the X-Files.

If anyone wants to rec other post-ep fic for "Ice," leave it in a comment. Don't forget to track this post so you can read everyone's comments.